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I've been at a lunch sitting next to a Bletchley Wren. She wore a specific badge which denoted it. I've visited Bletchley myself.

If you've ever seen how many war memorials there are in France from WW1, in little tiny villages, as well as towns, you'd understand why the French gave in. Holland & Belgium were overrun very quickly, & Hitler threatened to flatten Paris. The French Resistance were very brave & useful to us.

There was a fire in an ammunition locker but that wasn't the death blow. She also keeled over to starboard rather than having her back broken. http://www.hmshood.com/history/denmarkstrait/bismarck2.htm

Although Gallipoli was a complete disaster.

You should read Ted Briggs book. I have heard of scores of sailors who were just taken off before she sailed. The Hood Association website has a complete crew list dating back to 1920 and very few left just before 24th May 1941.

Duplicate due to the site playing silly beggars

It's not 100% sure that it hit the magazine. It's never been proved.

I've been trying to remember Andre's surname. Andre Jaffre who was on board the Bretagne in Mers-elKebir.

http://www.hmshood.com/history/forceh/oran.htm When the Hood was sunk by the Bismark in May 1941, there were Free French serving on board with us.

I am a member of the HMS Hood Association, as my Dad served on her 37-39. I have met a couple of people who were on board when Mers-el-Kebir happened, and a French sailor, a survivor from a ship in that fleet. They went to each others memorial services. I know Commander Keith Evans said he felt...

This is the timeline of the Holocaust. Jews were being killed in the 1930s albeit not on a extermination level. Look at 1939. 1939 Hitler predicts that if there is war, Jews will be exterminated. http://www.ppu.org.uk/genocide/g_holocaust.html Britain (not Churchill) warned Germany that if...

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Wellington, and Nelson weren't angels either.

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That's one of the reasons I don't like films much as history is changed for the sake of entertainment, but then the film is taken as history by a lot of people. Most Americans believe they recovered the Enigma machine, when bits of it were provided by the Polish underground. A complete Enigma...